The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet first impression

first impression

Housed in the pictorial slipcase

including additional titlepage

43 engraved plates by R

edges untrimmed

The Laughing Torso. Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett tibet first impressionLondon: Constable, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. pp ix, 326. Photographic frontispiece plus 15 b w plates and sketches in the text. Publisher's black cloth with spine silvertone decoration to spine, slightly rubbed. Light spotting to endpapers and edge of text block. Tips of corners bumped. Not an easy book to find in first edition, hence Hildreth Press issued a new edition in 2007 to fill demand. "Nina Hamnett wrote these memoirs in 1932 when she was 42.